The
recent show at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center was
very exciting. Thanks to all of you who showed up at the opening
and thanks to all of you who have e-mailed me after reading the
Times and Daily News articles. These articles will soon be posted
on the site .

It's
no secret that the last few months have been extremely challenging
for me. In September 2000, I started a new career as an elementary
school teacher- teaching movement and music to kindergarten thru
second grade in a school near my home in Brooklyn. The day I got
the job, I found out a tumor I had gotten removed from my rectum
was malignant.

It
was very small and the prognosis is excellent, thanks to self-examination,
early detection, and excellent medical care. Today, the surgery
is very conservative and less invasive- but the treatments are
more aggressive. So I've been receiving radiation and chemo-therapy
treatments since October 16, 2000 and that has been no picnic.
But survival is one of my passions and I am focusing on the end
result.

Please
forgive me if I do not respond quickly to your e-mail. I encourage
correspondence and look forward to hearing your continued feedback
about the project and newly uncovered fading ads.

I
am going to be adding many more images of fading ads to the site-
stuff I've taken over the last four years. I am also going to
start posting the images you've sent me of fading ads, as well
as some other images I've created like the one above, which is
a direct response to my recent round of chemotherapy.

In a date to be announced, photographs I have taken of various old movie
houses in Brooklyn will be part of an exhibition which I believe is
called Movie Palaces of Brooklyn at the WAH Center in
Williamsburg, sponsored by Bruce Friedman from Brooklyn Cable TV's THAT'S
BROOKLYN and will also include photos from Forgotten-NY's
Kevin Walsh and theatre historian Cezar del Valle! Hope to see you there.

On April 29th 2001, I gave a slide show & walking tour at the WAH
Center, co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Historical Society and co-hosted
by the Brooklyn Borough Historian- John Manbeck.